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Sorry, I keep linking to things on Facebook and assuming you all can see them. I forgot that for those of you who aren’t on Facebook you can’t actually see things I link to unless you’re already registered on Facebook and are added as my friend. Everyone else just gets to see a very minimal public profile. Here’s mine. I’m adding anyone who wants me to be their friend on Facebook so you can look around and check it out. That’s a limited time offer. A month from now I probably won’t be able to keep up (in two weeks I’ve already gathered more than 800 friends).

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Robert Scoble

As Startup Liaison for Rackspace, the Open Cloud Computing Company, Scoble travels the world looking for what's happening on the bleeding edge of technology for Rackspace's startup program. He's interviewed thousands of executives and technology innovators and reports what he learns in books ("The Age of Context," a book coauthored with Forbes author Shel Israel, has been released at http://amzn.to/AgeOfContext ), YouTube, and many social media sites where he's followed by millions of people. Best place to watch me is on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble
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Here’s the problem with opening up Facebook to the public, they don’t get it. Robert Scoble (who I’m a huge fan of) is bragging about his Facebook friend network:
(in two weeks I’ve already gathered more than 600 friends).
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I almost added you as a friend, in fact I got as far as hitting the add friend button. Then I decided against it.

The point of Facebook (for me at least) is that a Friend is a real friend, I can put things up on Facebook that I wouldn’t necessarily want members of the public to see.

This is for personal relationships, it’s about meeting up with friends, and staying in touch with friends, and the sharing of things with friends. More *social* than networking

I would also comment that by opening Facebook up to anyone who will have you as a friend you have spoiled your Facebook book experience. To me one of the Critical parts of Facebook is the News Feed where you can see what people whom you know are up to, if you have too many Friends who you don’t know this will just be filled with noise.

I almost added you as a friend, in fact I got as far as hitting the add friend button. Then I decided against it.

The point of Facebook (for me at least) is that a Friend is a real friend, I can put things up on Facebook that I wouldn’t necessarily want members of the public to see.

This is for personal relationships, it’s about meeting up with friends, and staying in touch with friends, and the sharing of things with friends. More *social* than networking

I would also comment that by opening Facebook up to anyone who will have you as a friend you have spoiled your Facebook book experience. To me one of the Critical parts of Facebook is the News Feed where you can see what people whom you know are up to, if you have too many Friends who you don’t know this will just be filled with noise.

Chris makes a good point. Facebook allows you to set some preferences for your news feed like choosing 20 friends you’d like to see more of in the feed, but even then you’re going to hardly see what you’re looking for.

Chris makes a good point. Facebook allows you to set some preferences for your news feed like choosing 20 friends you’d like to see more of in the feed, but even then you’re going to hardly see what you’re looking for.

[…] outside of Facebook (the blogosphere, for example) trying to access this content. One example is Robert Scoble putting a link to his profile on his blog and then having to apologize (more or less) to those who can’t access those links because […]

[…] web. A lot of stuff goes in, but nothing comes out. What happens in Facebook, stays in Facebook. As Robert Scoble noted, it’s almost completely invisible to Google. You can share only a limited amount of data on […]